what is happening in Texas and now Louisiana is unfathomable by any standards previously seen in the U.S.

Other nations likely have seen worse than this already. What happened in India recently might be one example of this when whole busloads of people were washed away into flooding rivers by the monsoon rains and water coming out of the Himalayas.

However, for us here in the U.S. our only really two comparisons might be Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans (which still 15 or more years later had 90,000 less people who left and never came back).

Strangely enough, most of them went to Houston and now Houston might suffer the same effect. There are also 10% less jobs now in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 I believe it was as well.

This could have a similar effect on Houston by the time 15 years have passed.

I think you will see more and more people moving away from places like Florida, TExas coast, Louisiana coast, and the Mississippi coast because this might not be an anomaly anymore. This could be a once every 1 to 10 year event that is going to hit somewhere in the gulf of Mexico Region.

Any way you look at this not believing in Global warming and global Climate change might get you laughed out of almost any room anywhere now in the U.S.

(Unless you are the ultra rich making money off of the deaths in Texas and Louisiana and elsewhere from storms like Katrina, Sandy and now Harvey.)